I-40 Tractor-Trailer Tire Blowout and Median Crossover Crash, Rocky Point, Pender County, North Carolina, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice on the Freight Corridor Where 80,000-Pound Rigs Breach Median Cable Barriers, We Pursue the Carriers and Tire Manufacturers Behind Catastrophic Blowouts, We Secure the Failed Tire, ELD Data and Dashcam Footage Before the Overwrite Loop Erases Them, FMCSA Tire Inspection Requirements Under 49 CFR, North Carolina’s Pure Contributory Negligence Rule Where Even One Percent Fault Bars Recovery So Proper Maintenance Evidence Is Everything, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
When an 18-Wheeler Tire Explodes on I-40 Near Rocky Point — What Happened, What It Means, and What You Need to Do Right Now You are reading this because a tractor-trailer tire blew out on Interstate 40 near Exit 408 in Rocky Point, Pender County, and that truck — an 80,000-pound combination vehicle traveling at highway speed — crossed through the median cable barriers and into oncoming westbound traffic heading toward Wilmington. Maybe you were on that road. Maybe you were in one of the cars that saw a wall of steel coming across the grass. Maybe you are the driver, sitting in a hospital bed or a motel room, hurting in ways you did not expect, wondering what just happened to your body and your livelihood. Or maybe you lost someone to a tire blowout on this same corridor, and you are here at 2 a.m. trying to understand why a truck tire fails and who is responsible. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes North Carolina commercial vehicle cases, and we are writing this page for one person: you, in this moment, trying to figure out what comes next.…